Born 1956, Elmhurst, IL
Currently works and resides in San Antonio, TX
EDUCATION
2000
Masters of Fine Art in Sculpture, University of Texas at San Antonio
1995
Bachelors of Fine Art in Sculpture, University of Texas at San Antonio
1981
Degree in Advertising Design, Colorado Institute of Art, Denver, CO
PROFESSIONAL CHRONOLOGY
1993- present
Co-founder/owner, cactus bra Space Gallery, San Antonio, TX
1999 - present
Full-time faculty, senior lecturer, University of Texas at San Antonio
1999- present
Ceramics instructor, San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX
SOLO EXHIBTIONS
2011 (upcoming)
Waiting, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX
2009
Texas Biennial, Mass Gallery, Austin, TX
2005
Omigosh, REM Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2003
Solipsist and the Other, REM Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2002
Pressed, San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX
2002
Pressed and Confined, UTSA Gallery (downtown campus), San Antonio, TX
2000
And Then, Art Asylum, San Antonio, TX
Perceptions, Finesilver Building, San Antonio, TX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Winter Group Show, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Foretopia, David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2009
Texas Draws I, Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
Waterflow, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Impromptu, JAC Studio, San Antonio, TX
On, Of, or About: 50 Paper Works, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2008
Begin/Begin Again, Galeria Ortiz Contemporary, San Antonio, TX
2006
Show Offs, Unit B Gallery, San Antonio, TX
30-Year Gala, Radisson Hotel, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
"Insanely Sick" I2I Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2005
Home is San Anton. . .", New Braunfels Museum of Art and Music, New Braunfels, TX
2004
H20: Arts Consider the Hydrosphere, Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
Stray Show, Chicago, IL
2003
Blue Star 18, Terrie Sultan, curator, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center , San Antonio, TX and Austin, TX
Neon, Neil Ryan, curator, The Art Alliance Center at Clearlake, TX
2002
Steel Grrls, Chip Ware, curator, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
New Images: M/F, Laredo Center for the Arts, Laredo, TX
Art Foundation's Biennial 2000 Craft Competition, (two-person exhibition), Art Museum of South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX
2001
2001 Expo, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
2000
Fall/Winter 2000/2001 Exhibition, International Sculpture Center, Award for Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Fibrous, Karen Mahaffy, curator, Southwest Texas State University Gallery, San Marcos, TX
Revelations Texas, University of Houston, Houston, TX
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2006
Sculpture Space, Utica, New York, partially funded by the NEA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Four Heads are Better than One" " Scott Dickens, EXAMINER.COM, July, 2009
"Texas Draws" Scott Dickens, EXAMINER.COM, July2009
"Texas Biennial 2009" JR Compton, DALLAS ARTS REVUE, 2009
"Texas Biennial Multiple Venues" Frances Colpitt, ART IN AMERICA, June/July, 2009
"Supernatural Selection" Michael Duncan, Exhibition catalog, 2009
"Carefully Drawn Conclusions", Dan Goddard, SAN ANTONIO CURRENT, July 14, 2009
"The Art Capades: Passionate Observers and Dancing Bananas," SAN ANTONIO CURRENT, Sept. 6, 2006
"Beauty and Symmetry," SAN ANTONIO CURRENT, Sept. 18, 2003
"Blue Star's Survey of San Antonio Art 'Poetic'," SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, July 20, 2003
"Artists Take a Functional Turn Toward Home," SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, Jan. 12, 2003
"Women Break Through with Metal," ALBUQUERQUE TRIBUNE, Nov. 17, 2002
"Craft Show Exhibit," CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER-TIMES, May 13, 2001
"International Sculpture Center 2000 Outstanding Student Achievement
In Contemporary Sculpture Awards," SCULPTURE MAGAZINE, VOL.19, No. 8, Oct., 2000